Judge attacked in Clark County court (1 Viewer)

[GrandAdmiral]

As a rule I’m not going to take a lawyer’s word about their client, but that would certainly answer a main question

I think it was already known. There was record of him being on medication and everything before this incident happened.

 

[boutte]

Because mental hospitals would be too expensive. Just throw the coocoos in a cage to rot like in the good old days.

Whatever happened to innocent by reason of insanity?

 

[DaveXA]

Because mental hospitals would be too expensive. Just throw the coocoos in a cage to rot like in the good old days.

Whatever happened to innocent by reason of insanity?

Depends on the state, but if I recall correctly, insanity defenses are often notoriously difficult to prove. It's supposed to be pretty narrow and experts often differ on how insanity is defined in a given case.

I wonder if the courts haven't considered having defendants with a violent history sit in an enclosure or have him video conference in from a separate location? I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, but I don't know if that's only for certain proceedings or whatever.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The “human dart” who went viral after leaping over a bench to attack a judge in a Las Vegascourtroom has been sentenced to decades in prison.

Deobra Redden was ordered on Tuesday to serve between 26 and 65 years in a Nevadaprison for the attack on Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported.

Redden, 31, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in September to attempted murder and other charges, ending his trial shortly after Holthus had testified that she feared for her life when Redden vaulted over her 4-foot-high (1.2-meter-high) bench and landed on her.


The attack happened Jan. 3 as Holthus was about to deliver Redden’s sentence in a separate felony battery case.

The violent scene was captured by courtroom video that showed the 62-year-old judge falling back from her seat against a wall as Redden flung himself over her bench and grabbed her hair, toppling an American flag onto them. Holthus suffered some injuries but was not hospitalized, courthouse officials said.……

Man who jumped a desk to attack a Nevada judge in the courtroom is sentenced

A man who was captured on courtroom video attacking a judge in Las Vegas has been sentenced to at least 26 years in prison

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Paul]

So what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas?

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Because mental hospitals would be too expensive. Just throw the coocoos in a cage to rot like in the good old days.

Whatever happened to innocent by reason of insanity?

“Thanks, Obam…I mean Reagan”

 

[Dago]

“Thanks, Obam…I mean Reagan”

So we should have kept empty hospitals open? Those hospitals were being emptied of patients well before Reagan took office. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which was a part of Kennedy's New Frontier social programs, is what started the exodus of mental patients. By 1975, the number of mental patients in federal or county mental institutions had fallen by 62% and by 1985 down by 80%.

Edit: The plan was to have mental patients cared for at the local level. In 1980 under Carter, The Mental Health Systems Act was passed that would have provided federal money to local mental institutions. It was repealed by the 96th Congress the very next year.

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

So we should have kept empty hospitals open? Those hospitals were being emptied of patients well before Reagan took office. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which was a part of Kennedy's New Frontier social programs, is what started the exodus of mental patients. By 1975, the number of mental patients in federal or county mental institutions had fallen by 62% and by 1985 down by 80%.

Edit: The plan was to have mental patients cared for at the local level. In 1980 under Carter, The Mental Health Systems Act was passed that would have provided federal money to local mental institutions. It was repealed by the 96th Congress the very next year.

It was not meant to be a serious comment.
That being said, today I learned that Reagan has unfairly been blamed for this for decades.

 

[Dago]

It was not meant to be a serious comment.
That being said, today I learned that Reagan has unfairly been blamed for this for decades.

I wouldn't say he was blameless...more that the entire government failed us in this

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

I wouldn't say he was blameless...more that the entire government failed us in this

As they usually do…